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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






2. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






3. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






4. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






5. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






6. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






7. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






8. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






9. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






10. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






11. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






12. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






13. Open syllable






14. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






15. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






16. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






17. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






18. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






19. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






20. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






21. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






22. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






23. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






24. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






25. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






26. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






27. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






28. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






29. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






30. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






31. Multisensory Structured Language Education






32. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






33. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






34. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






35. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






36. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






37. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






38. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






39. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






40. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






41. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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42. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






43. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






44. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






45. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






46. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






47. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






48. Wide Range Achievement Test






49. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






50. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.